Plebs And Politics In The Late Roman Republic Summary

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Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Henrik Mouritsen: Book Review

Mouritsen field of study was ancient history at King’s college in London, this was a very interesting topic to him. The author purpose in writing this book was to better understand the political system in the late roman republic. He believes that the populus Romans held absolute power when it came to electing officials for legislation. Mouritsen had a question about the voting structure at the time, that allowed roman citizens to choose the next tribune. The question was based on the size of the crowds that would attend public meeting and vote. Also, if that size influenced how the system worked. Also, the location as to which this meeting was held. He had questioned how long it would take a vote to happened and compared writings from other historians to come up with estimates. Lastly how roman is run and the challenges it faces brought out by the rich …show more content…

I believe that his felid is very board and so this topic would fall under his studies because of the time. However, Mouritsen uses a lot of support from writers like Plutarch. He uses Plutarch to talk about how some building were said to be built for the voting to occur in and then imply his own theory to the information as to what would seem more realistic. These types of sources are used all throughout this book manly to describe events. For example, the voting process and how many people the historians say were there. this would be compared to how many people were there based on being able to fit all the voter in on a time frame. Often some work is compared to another historian to obtain a rough estimate of what might have happened. He also talked about a historian named Hansen and his believe about the functionary view of general in that time. It is said that it was not likely that the generals could address the whole army do to spacing

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